Ok, I'm setting myself up for some serious flaming, but hopefully someone will be able to help me out (and yes . . . I did do some searching first!!!)

I am trying to mount the floppy drive so I can get some data off an old disk. I have tried:

1)
#mount /mnt/floppy
(can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab)

2)
#mkdir /mnt/floppy
#mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
(mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device)

For the record I am running Knoppmyth R5A15.1

Do an:
You probably want: "/dev/fd0u1440"

I just went through this trying to create a FreeDOS boot disk with the Award Flash utility and an updated BIOS image on it. I seem to remember a time when Linux auto-detected the format of a floppy disk...

Thanks for the quick reply. I gave that whirl but alas it did not work.

There are a number of fd*'s, how would I know which one to use? For the record I get same error as before.

The numeric part correspond to formatted size, so a standard 3.5" DS/DD 1.44Mb diskette would be /dev/fd0u1440 as I understand it. If there is another 1440 option try that...

when did this come about? what happened to the old trusty /dev/fd0 ?

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Xsecrets

It has been like that for a while... /dev/fd0 just linked to it.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Hi,
Being basicly conservative on the energy, (lazy) I simply made the fstab happy:)
It shows me the floppy is at /floppy.

/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0

as root, mkdir /floppy
now you can mount /floppy besure to umount /floppy when done so files are closed properly before removing disk.

Hope this helps
Mike

Even better!

Sorry, I was answering that without access to my KnoppMyth machine and working from memory and examples on a Mandrake based workstation...

Once again, thanks for the help. I've tried them all, but still no success. Luckily my wife found the file she was looking for on the harddrive, but I will have to address this problem soon.

For the record, this is what I see when I type #mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
/dev/hda3 on /cache type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda4 on /myth type ext3 (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

From root I did the following:
#mkdir /floppy
#mount /floppy
and got this message again:
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

First add the line the mjl described above to your /etc/fstab if it isn't already there:

Second make sure you have a corresponding device entry:

If it's missing you'll have to recreate it, but that gets "interesting" because of all the aliases.

Hi,
This is for smheoc
"mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"

I must have been asleep that day and missed that line Normally that error message occurs if you try to mount the floppy and there isn't a floppy in the drive... You should have no trouble using a standard dos / windows formatted floppy.

Try again. and look for the simple solutions first.

Thanks
Mike